After 65 years in the shadows, the Indian heroine of Churchill's elite SOE spy network is to be recognised with a statue in London

Noor Inayat Khan, the British agent who ran a spy network in Paris. She was tortured by the Gestapo for 10 months for any information about SOE operations, but she stood firm and was eventually executed at Dachau concentration camp on September aged just

A Jewish women carries her radio into a police station after a German order (August demanded the confiscation of all radios owned by Jews. Paris, France, — Bibliotheque Historique de la Ville de Paris Anna Skrainka had to hand over her radio in Hamburg.